Texas Senate: where the candidates stand

Taxes and Cost of Living

Calls for a 'fairer tax system' that raises the corporate tax rate, ends 'carried interest' and 'buy, borrow, die' loopholes, taxes billionaires' income and capital gains more heavily, and raises the tax on corporate stock buybacks, in order to cut taxes for working families and small businesses. Also proposes a $15 federal minimum wage, a surtax on corporations paying executives more than 250 times median pay, expansion of the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit, and repeal of the Trump tariffs.

Taxes and Cost of Living

Campaign site says he will champion President Trump's priorities including 'cutting taxes' and stopping wasteful spending that led to over $36 trillion in debt, and will revive manufacturing, jobs and the American Dream. His 'Protecting the Texas Promise' economic plan centers on new deductions: $25,000 for out-of-pocket medical expenses including premiums plus $25,000 per dependent, $5,000 for healthy-lifestyle costs such as gym and nutrition expenses and GLP-1 medications, and $50,000 deductions for first-time homebuyers and for down payments on a new primary residence, along with making the 'Trump accounts' program permanent and doubling the child tax credit to $4,400.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Immigration and Border Security

Describes the border as a 'front porch' with 'a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door' and supports comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while making legal immigration easier. Proposes focusing ICE on criminals, gang members and human traffickers rather than communities, banning ICE agents from masking or refusing identification, creating a path to citizenship for long-term residents, spouses and DREAMers, modernizing ports of entry with X-ray technology, hiring more immigration judges, and an employer sponsorship program with strong guest-worker labor standards.

Immigration and Border Security

Runs on helping President Trump finish the border wall, protect national sovereignty, secure the border and deport 'criminal illegal aliens,' citing more than 100 lawsuits he filed as attorney general against the Biden administration over border policies.

Health Care and Prescription Drug Costs

Says 'health care is a human right' and proposes allowing every American, regardless of age, to join Medicare as a public option while lowering prescription drug prices through price transparency, generic drug incentives, out-of-pocket caps, and regulation of pharmacy benefit managers. Also supports protecting and improving the ACA, reversing cuts to enhanced ACA tax credits, Medicare and Medicaid, reforming prior authorization, codifying Roe v. Wade and protecting contraception and IVF, funding rural hospitals, limiting medical debt collection and credit reporting, and opposing VA privatization.

Health Care and Prescription Drug Costs

Says he will work with President Trump to 'Make America Healthy Again' by taking on Big Pharma and Big Food, increasing transparency in food and health care systems, promoting healthier outcomes for Texas families, and putting Americans' well-being ahead of corporate profits. His economic plan would also create a $25,000 deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses including premiums, plus $25,000 per dependent.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Energy, Environment, and Data Centers

Frames Texas as the energy leader and proposes reinstating federal tax credits and loans to diversify energy production and accelerate renewables, streamlining permitting without weakening environmental protections, expanding LIHEAP and modernizing its formula for hot-weather states, and strengthening the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Calls for requiring large energy users such as AI data centers to pay for the energy infrastructure updates they need so costs are not passed to consumers, cracking down on disaster-related price gouging, and dedicating federal resources to weatherize the Texas grid.

Energy, Environment, and Data Centers

Campaign site says that after 'four years of Joe Biden... declaring war on American energy,' he will help bring down costs and 'remove harmful regulations designed to hurt our energy companies.' No documented position on the reviewed sources' AI data center energy-cost issue.

Corruption, Ethics, and Democracy

Says his first Senate legislation would be an anti-corruption package to reverse Citizens United by banning super PACs and corporate PACs, ban partisan gerrymandering through independent redistricting commissions, and increase transparency and accountability across government. Additional priorities include the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, banning congressional stock trading, congressional term limits, requiring annual town halls, banning presidential pardons, and imposing term limits and a binding code of conduct on Supreme Court justices; the site notes he has never taken corporate PAC money and broke quorum twice in the Texas House over redistricting.

Corruption, Ethics, and Democracy

Says he will champion President Trump's priorities in Washington, including 'ending the weaponization of government, and draining the Swamp,' and frames himself as a political outsider fighting establishment figures in both parties. The reviewed sources do not document positions on campaign finance limits, redistricting commissions, congressional stock trading, term limits or Supreme Court ethics.

Rejects shutting America off from the world and supports working with allies and diplomacy to prevent attacks and avoid unnecessary wars, defending Ukraine against Russian aggression, deepening cooperation with NATO and the EU, and restoring funding for the State Department and USAID. On the Middle East, supports stopping offensive weapons sales to the Netanyahu government while backing defensive systems like Iron Dome, ensuring U.S. funds are not used to harm civilians, and using U.S. leverage to secure a two-state solution; also calls for action on human rights abuses including those against Uyghurs, Rohingya and Sudanese.

Advocates an 'America First' foreign policy that promotes peace through strength and prioritizes U.S. interests, saying his top priority is the American people rather than sending billions to foreign countries or protecting other nations' borders.

Housing Affordability

Proposes stopping corporate landlords from manipulating markets to hike rents, banning Wall Street from buying up housing stock, expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, repealing outdated construction regulations, supporting lower property insurance costs, and creating a federal task force to promote factory-built 'modular' homes. His legislative record cited on the site includes replacing outdated regulations to increase apartment and condo supply and establishing Texas' first Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.

Agriculture and Ranchers

Told ABC 7 News that he wants to reverse 'reckless cuts' and fully staff the USDA to support the cattle industry, and to reverse 'corrupt tariffs' he says drive up fertilizer and equipment costs. He said the next farm bill should not be used as a political tool and that he would work with both parties to pass it, and criticized increased beef imports as undercutting farmers and ranchers.

Education, Parental Rights, and Social Issues

A post shared on his campaign site criticizes a Texas private school voucher push as a 'scam' and says public schools are being defunded to pay for tax breaks; the reviewed sources do not set out a broader federal education platform. His site also cites legislative work on child care cost relief, lead removal from school water fountains, and school air filtration standards.

Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Abortion and Reproductive Rights

Supports codifying Roe v. Wade and protecting access to contraception and IVF, and says Texas' abortion ban is dangerous and causing women to die needlessly.

Housing Affordability

Proposes a $50,000 tax deduction for first-time homebuyers and a $50,000 deduction on down payments for people moving to a new primary residence, described as part of an affordability agenda intended to 'put thousands of dollars back into the pockets of hardworking Texans.'

Agriculture and Ranchers

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Education, Parental Rights, and Social Issues

Says he will stand with President Trump to protect gun rights and 'defend the unborn,' defeat 'the radical transgender movement' including men in girls' sports, fight 'woke indoctrination' in classrooms, and protect parental rights. His site calls his Democratic opponent's positions on gender ideology and LGBTQ-focused school content out of step with Texas values.

Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets

Says America must be 'the crypto capital of the world' and supports a clear, pro-growth regulatory framework for digital assets, including passage of the CLARITY Act, to give innovators certainty to build and scale.

Guns and Second Amendment

Says he will stand with President Trump to protect gun rights, describing an 'unprecedented assault' on Second Amendment freedoms from 'Republicans' and Democrats alike.

Abortion and Reproductive Rights

States that he will 'defend the unborn' alongside President Trump.